Improved extract for the cure of cancer and other diseases



waited swa gaunt Willa.

PLEASANT A. COBB, OE LYNGHBURG, VIRGINIA.

letters Patent No. 102,093, dated April 19, 1870.

IMPROVED EXTRACT FOR THE CURE OF CANCER AND. OTHER DISEASES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, PLEASANT A. COBB, of Lynchbnrg, in the State of Virginia, have invented a certain new and useful Extract for the Cure of Cancer and other Diseases; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the manner of making and using the same, and of the several ingredients thereof.

In preparing this extract I take about equal uantities of the following roots and barks,broken into pieces of moderate size or somewhat pounded in a mortar.

\Vhite-oak bark, (qucrcus alba.)

Red-oak bark, (que'rcus ruln'a.)

Black-hawes' root, ('r'iburnum prun'ijbl'ium.

He, or stags-horn, sumach root, (rims tg phinu.)

Sassafras root, (Icarus sassafras.)

Persimruon bark, (d'iospyros Vi'rgin'ian'um.)

Dog-wood root, (coruns Florida.)

These roots and barks I subject-to the action of water of about the temperature of 212 Fahrenheit. The time to which I thus expose them to the water will be due to the freshness or dryness-of the barks and roots, and will be continued until the medicinal strength is abstracted, which can readily be ascertained by occasionally taking out a piece of the roots or barks and tasting of it.

\Vhen the strength of the roots and barks is obtained, I pour oh" the fluid and evaporate it down to the consistence of ordinary paste. This constitutes the extract; and this extract I apply to the cancers and other diseases.

The application sets up at first a sloughing action, releasing the cancer from the flesh and allowing of its easy removal, and then creating a healing and healthy process in the flesh 0r diseased surfaces.

Now, what I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

lhe extract for the cure-of cancers, 850., made in the manner and of theingredients as herein recited.

This specification signed this 1st day of February, 1810. PLEASANT A. COBB.

\Vitnesses:

'lnos. 1. EVERETT, ROBERT EVERETT. 

